{"id":15557,"date":"2016-08-16T16:31:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15557"},"modified":"2024-06-24T15:32:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:32:27","slug":"amazon-locker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/16\/amazon-locker\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Locker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2016\/08\/amazon-locker\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2016\/08\/amazon-locker\/\">\n<p>I had to return an order, and after going through the usual steps, I was presented with three options for sending the package back. Two of them, UPS pickup and UPS dropoff, were the options I was familiar with. The new one was Amazon Locker. These are the sort of lockers you&rsquo;d see at a bus terminal&mdash;or, more likely, the sort of lockers you&rsquo;d see in a bus terminal in a black-and-white movie&mdash;but they&rsquo;re owned by Amazon and set up in places to make it easy for customers to pick up and return orders (and for Amazon to avoid paying UPS).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Truth to tell, the UPS Store is closer to my office than this Amazon Locker, but I always have to talk to a person at the UPS Store (ew) and there&rsquo;s usually a line. An interaction with a touchscreen and cold sheet metal seems much more Amazon-like.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I was not able to find any lockers in my state.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Drang: I had to return an order, and after going through the usual steps, I was presented with three options for sending the package back. Two of them, UPS pickup and UPS dropoff, were the options I was familiar with. The new one was Amazon Locker. These are the sort of lockers you&rsquo;d see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-06-24T19:32:29Z","apple_news_api_id":"19e7d00f-521e-4719-98a0-20ec5fc4e3b6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-06-24T19:32:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGefQD1IeRxmYoCDsX8Tjtg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,2614],"class_list":["post-15557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-shipping"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15559,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557\/revisions\/15559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}